Research Catalog

Title

Women's songs from West Africa / edited by Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou.

Publication

• Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2014.
• ©2014

Supplementary Content

• Table of contents
• Klappentext

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hale, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1942-
• Sidikou, Aïssata G.

Description

341 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

African expressive cultures

Uniform Title

African expressive cultures.

Subject

• Music > Africa, West > History and criticism
• Women musicians > Africa, West
• West Africans > Music

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : new perspectives on women's songs and singing in West Africa / Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou -- Wolof women break the taboo of sex through songs / Marame Gueye -- Jola kanyalen songs from the Casamance, Senegal : from "tradition" to globalization / Kirsten Langeveld -- Azna deities in the songs of Taguimba Bouzou : a window on the visible and invisible / Boubé Namaïwa -- Initiation and funeral songs from the Guro of Côte d'Ivoire / Ariane Deluz -- Praises performances by jalimusolu in the Gambia / Marloes Janson -- Saharan music : about a feminine modernity / Aline Tauzin -- Songs by Wolof women / Luciana Penna-Diaw -- A heroic performance by Siramori Diabaté in Mali / Brahima Camara and Jan Jansen -- Women's tattooing songs from Kajoor, Senegal / George Joseph -- Drummed poems by Songhay-Zarma women of Niger / Fatima Mounkaïla -- Space, language, and identity in the palm tree / Aissata G. Sidikou -- Bambara women's songs in southern Mali / Bah Diakité -- Patriarchy in songs and poetry by Zarma women / Aissata Niandou -- Muslim Hausa women's songs / Beverly B. Mack -- Lamentation and politics in the Sahelian song / Thomas A. Hale -- Transformations in Tuareg tende singing : women's voices and local feminisms / Susan J. Rasmussen -- Income strategies of a jelimuso in Mali and France / Nienke Muurling.

Call Number

Sc E 14-1036

ISBN

• 9780253010179 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 0253010179 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 0253010217
• 9780253010216
• 9780253010216 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013012262

OCLC

812509003

Title

Women's songs from West Africa / edited by Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou.

Publisher

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African expressive cultures

African expressive cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Klappentext

Added Author

Hale, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1942- editor.

Sidikou, Aïssata G., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1036